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Spider Project is a project management software, developed by a Russian company, Spider Project Team.[1]

Introduction[edit]

Spider Project is primarily a tool for project and portfolio scheduling and associated resource, materials, cost and risk management. It does not have features like project-related communication management, issue tracking, and document management.[1][2][3]

According to Spider Project's publisher, the product provides CPM functions and metrics, and can calculate critical path drag, which tells the user how much each critical path activity delays project completion.[4][5] Spider provides automatic scheduling, driven by resource allocation and resource leveling, and does not stress manual scheduling features.

Spider Project's publisher says it is closely linked with 'Success Driven Project Management (SDPM)'[6]—a methodology, developed by Spider Project Team, which describes how scheduling-related project management is done. Other project management software tools can use SDPM methods by adjusting the method to match that tool's functions.

Spider Project Team promotes project management in general, as well as PMBOK Guide specifically in Russia. General director of Spider Project Team Vladimir Liberzon[3] is a vice president of the PMI Moscow, Russia Project Management Institute Chapter. Spider Project Team is a PMI Registered Education Provider[7]

Members of Spider Project team have spoken at several PMI and International Project Management Association (IPMA) Congresses and Conferences.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

Historical roots[edit]

Spider Project began in the Soviet Union. The Soviet economy was characterized by several factors:

  • It was a centrally planned economy. As a consequence planning methods and techniques, and their mathematical background were subjects of high importance. In 1963, a Central Economic Mathematical Institute was founded with the main goal of 'introduction of the mathematical methods and computers in the practice of planning, creation of the theory of the optimal control of the national economy. '[15]
  • In the Cold War, the Soviet Union had to compete with much more economically powerful and resource-rich western countries.[16] This required efficient use of available resources. In 1975, Sovietmathematician and economistLeonid Kantorovich won a Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on the optimal allocation of scarce resources.[17]

Spider Project Team claims that Spider inherited some of those planning methods developed in the Soviet Union.[13] As an example, they say it is distinct from similar project management tools because of its resource planning and levelling algorithms and related features that target optimizing constrained resources, materials, and finances.[1]

Notable features[edit]

Resource Leveling[edit]

Resource leveling is emphasized in most of publication about Spider Project.[1] Though no academic-level report is available with comparison of the resource leveling algorithms of different project management tools, Spider Project has shown the best results among other tools compared in limited tests conducted by members of the professional Planning Planet forum (tests were conducted based on library of Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problems (RCPSP), made available by Technical University of Munchen).[18][19]

Resource Productivity[edit]

Spider supports activities with type 'productivity'. When specific activity is marked to be a productivity type, user needs to specify productivities of resources, assigned to this activity. Duration on such activity will then be calculated by Spider and will depend on the combined productivity of resources, assigned to this activity.

Skill scheduling[edit]

In addition to conventional assignment of resources to activities, Spider supports assignment of resource Skills. In this situation user has to create table with relation between resources and skills. One resource can have one or more skills, equally every skill, can have one or more resources assigned to them. During project scheduling Spider automatically selects the actual resource, which will be assigned to activity. The decision which resource to assigned will be based on resource skills, productivities, costs and user defined priorities.

Variable Resource Assignment[edit]

In addition to conventional assignment of resources, when user specifies a fixed amount of resources assigned to a specific activity (e.g. Brick Layer [500%]), Spider supports situation, when user specifies a range (minimum and maximum amount of resources) required for activity. In this situation activity will be ongoing if minimum amount of resources is available, and if and when more resources become available, they will also be assigned to this activity.

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Market share and geography[edit]

No independent data Spider Project's market share exists. Spider Project team claims Spider Project is used in almost 30 countries,[1] and believe Russia and Ukraine have the most installations.

Having its head office in Moscow, Russia, as well as several representatives in Russia, Spider Project Team has also partners in the following countries:

  • Belarus[20]
  • Kazakhstan[20]
  • Brazil[21]
  • Malayzia[citation needed]
  • Romania[22]
  • Ukraine[23]
  • USA[24]

The largest projects known to have used Spider Project are:

  • A portfolio of construction projects for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi[25][26]
  • A portfolio of construction projects for APEC Russia 2012 summit[27]
  • Spider Project site has a document, reportedly published together with Romtelecom, Romania at PMICOS conference, where a detailed report is provided on usage of Spider Project for managing of a portfolio of 1,600 projects, containing up to 170,000 activities.[28]

Software releases[edit]

Between 2007 and 2013 Spider Project released an average of 1.8 releases per month.[29]

Architecture[edit]

Though used for multi-user portfolio management, Spider does not have a server. It manages portfolios using the same software that manages individual projects. It does this with a distributed architecture, through software features and organisational procedures. This includes:

  • Consolidating individual projects over a computer network into a portfolio, followed by redistributing projects, in case information in them has changed. This procedure must be executed regularly, following a schedule update cycle.
  • Keeping information in 'Corporate Reference Books, ' which must be identical for all projects of the portfolio (e.g., resource information, resource calendars etc.). Corporate Reference Books should be protected by file system access control. If Corporate Reference Books are updated, those working on individual projects must synchronize them with their schedules (e.g., to use new resources, etc.).

Language support[edit]

Spider Project is available in English, Russian, Romanian and Portuguese and Spanish.

Software versions[edit]

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Spider project is available in four versions, which differ in functionality and price:[30]

  • Professional
  • Desktop Plus
  • Desktop Lite
  • Lite

The Professional and Lite versions are also available in demo versions. The demo versions provide most program features and have no expiration time, but have a limit of 40 activities (though any number of project phases).

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A Spider Project licence lets users access and distribute to any number of other users a Spider Project Viewer. Spider Project Viewer can open and analyse Spider Project files and generate reports, but not modify the project file.


Further reading[edit]

  • Possi, Marcus (2012). Spider Project 4th Edition. Lulu. ISBN9781300044444.

References[edit]

  1. ^ abcdeCotterell, Steve (Jan 2014). 'Spider Project Professional'. project manager today. Archived from the original on February 6, 2002.Cite journal requires |journal= (help)Alt URL
  2. ^Goff, Stacy (January 21, 2010). Other Voices: Visions for the Project Management Software Industry. ISBN978-1-933890-96-8.
  3. ^ abGoff, Stacy A. (2009). '9. Visions For the Project Management Software Industry'(PDF). Project Management Circa 2025. Project Management Institute, Inc. ISBN978-1-933890-96-8. Archived from the original on 2009.
  4. ^Devaux, Stephen A. (Jan–Feb 2012). 'The Drag Efficient: The Missing Quantification of Time on the Critical Path'(PDF). Defense AT&L Magazine of the Defense Acquisition University. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2013-03-13.Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ^Adedeji B. Badiru; Samuel O. Osisanya (23 January 2013). Project Management for the Oil and Gas Industry: A World System Approach. CRC Press. pp. 159–. ISBN978-1-4200-9425-1.
  6. ^BODEA, Constanţa-Nicoleta; PURNUŞ, Augustin (2012). 'PROJECT RISK SIMULATION METHODS – A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS'(PDF). Management & Marketing Challenges for the Knowledge Society: 565–580.Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ^'Spider Project Team record of a PMI R.E.P. (Registered Education Provider)'.
  8. ^'The Application of Success Probabilities, Success Driven Project Management/SDPM,and Some Critical Chain Concepts to the Oil & Gas Industry in Brazil; Presented at the PMI College of Scheduling 5th Annual Conference'.
  9. ^'From Russia with love: truly integrated project scope, schedule, resource and risk information'.
  10. ^'Finding opportunities in problems'.
  11. ^'Tools and techniques for corporate project management'.
  12. ^Russell D. Archibald (13 March 2003). Managing High-Technology Programs and Projects. John Wiley & Sons. p. 361. ISBN978-0-471-26557-3.
  13. ^ abArchibald, Russell; Liberzon, Vladimir. 'The Application of Success Probabilities, Success Driven Project Management/SDPM, and Some Critical Chain Concepts to the Oil & Gas Industry in Brazil'(PDF).
  14. ^'Project Perspectives'(PDF). IPMA (The annual publication of International Project Management Association 2013).
  15. ^'Official site of Central Economic Mathematical Institute' (in Russian).
  16. ^A Comparison of the US and Soviet Economies: Evaluating the Performance of the Soviet System(PDF) (Report). CIA. 1999.Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  17. ^'Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich page at MacTutor History of Mathematics archive'.
  18. ^'Test report on comparison of resource leveling engine of Microsoft Project, Primavera, Asta Powerproject, and Spider Project'.
  19. ^'Comparison of resource levelling algorithms of different Project Management tools'.
  20. ^ ab'Web site of ANTAL GROUP, Spider Project partner is Belarus and Kazakhstan' (in Russian).
  21. ^'Web site of Ecthoth, Spider Project partner is Brazil'.
  22. ^'Web site of Spider Management Technologies ROMANIA, Spider Project partner is Romania' (in Romanian).
  23. ^'Web site of SPIDER MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES, Spider Project partner is Ukraine' (in Russian).
  24. ^'Web site of Spider Project USA, Spider Project partner in the USA'.
  25. ^Нефинансовый отчет об устойчивости развития и экологической ответственности(PDF) (in Russian). Олимстрой. Государственная Корпорация. (Olympstroy. State Corporation). 2011.
  26. ^'Документы для ответственных исполнителей. Пример заполнения Сетевого графика строительства (Documents for subcontractors. Example of network diagram)'(PDF) (in Russian). Олимстрой. Государственная Корпорация. (Olympstroy. State Corporation).
  27. ^'Строителей объектов саммита АТЭС-2012 'подсадят' на Spider Project' (in Russian).
  28. ^'Implementing Project Portfolio Management in a Telecom Company (Originally published as a part of PMICOS 2009 Annual Conference)'(PDF).
  29. ^'Spider Project releases'.
  30. ^'Spider Project versions'.

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External links[edit]

  • Official website(in English and Russian)
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Spider Project is powerful professional project management software, unparalleled in the world market. The first SP version was launched in 1993 and since then it has been constantly improved. The current Version 10 is used in 28 countries. Spider Project offers numerous unique functional features and is the only PM software that optimizes resource, cost, and material constrained schedules and budgets for projects and portfolios.
The unique features of Spider Project include Quantity Based Scheduling, Conditional Scheduling, Skill Scheduling, Cost and Material Leveling, Resource Critical Path Calculation, Cash and Material Flow Calculation and Management, Trend Analysis, Intelligent Risk Simulation and Analysis, Calculation of Success Probability Trends, Management of Project Time and Cost Buffers, Application of Corporate Norms, Management of many Parallel Budgets, Multiple WBS and many others.
Spider Project is used to manage many large scale programs in Russia, including the preparation for 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
The application areas where Spider Project is successfully used include Aerospace, Banking, Construction, Defense, Energy, Engineering, Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Metallurgy, Mining, Oil & Gas, Railways, Retail, Shipbuilding, Software Development, Telecommunications, Utilities, etc.

ADVANCED FEATURES OF SPIDER PROJECT PROFESSIONAL

Reliable Project and Portfolio Scheduling

Spider Project creates schedules that are optimal or at least close to optimal and take into account all schedule constraints including resource, financing and supply restrictions for projects and portfolios of any size and complexity. Resource constrained schedules created by Spider Project are shorter than the schedules created by other packages. It saves a fortune to Spider Project users.

Advanced Scheduling Options

Project scheduling in Spider Project includes all traditional methods (like CPM and renewable resource leveling) and adds Quantity based scheduling (when activity durations are calculated basing on activity work volumes (physical quantities) and assigned resource productivities), Skill scheduling (when the software selects which resources to assign basing on their skills, productivities, costs and user defined priorities), Conditional scheduling (when software selects one of competing network paths basing on user defined conditions on special switch activities).
Spider Project calculates feasible resource constrained floats and determines Resource Critical Path (Critical Chain).

Advanced Activity Modeling

In Spider Project activities may be of Duration, Productivity, Hammock, Milestone, and Switch types.
Duration type is traditional – activity duration does not depend on assigned resources.
For activities of Productivity type it is necessary to define activity Volumes – the quantities of work that shall be done on activities in physical units (e.g. cubic meters, tons, etc.). Activity duration is calculated basing on total productivity of assigned resources.
Hammock activities last from one event to another (e.g. from the start of one activity to the finish of another or same activity). In Spider Project it is possible to assign costs, resources and materials on Hammock activities and link them with other activities by all types of dependencies with Leads/Lags. It is also possible to assign costs and resources on milestone activities.
Switch activities define which of outgoing dependencies shall be selected in the project/portfolio schedule.

Advanced Resource Modeling

In Spider Project resources are divided into two separate objects: renewable resources (people, machines) and consumable resources (materials, equipment). This way Spider Project users can define that renewable resources consume materials (a car consumes gas) during their work.
Both renewable and consumable resources may be produced (supplied) and used or consumed on project activities. Variable resource availability may be defined in time and/or through resource production and consumption on project activities.
Resources may be assigned on activities to work in teams (together), or independently (e.g. in different shifts), part time, and with variable workload (e.g. when they are not busy at activities with higher priorities).
Assigned resources may have different productivities and activity duration is calculated basing on activity volume (quantity) of work and total productivity of assigned resources.
Spider Project users can create predefined crews (multiresources) and assign crews thus assigning all resources that belong to these crews. At any moment the crews may be changed and these changes will be applied to all future crew assignments. This option is very useful for what if evaluations and resource management during project execution.
Project and Portfolio schedules may be calculated taking into account supply restrictions and delaying activities if materials necessary for their completion are not available.

Advanced Network Modeling and Analysis

Spider Project includes all traditional approaches to Network creation and has additional options like Time Lag calendars and Volume Lags (e.g. next activity can start after 500 meters were done on preceding activity).
Besides all traditional types of activity dependencies Spider Project users can define Conditional branches that depend on the status of switch activities, Double dependencies (links from the certain point of preceding activity to the certain point of succeeding activity), Strict Dependencies when succeeding activities shall start exactly at the moments defined by these dependencies.
Any filter can be applied to the project network and links, like show all activities that have no successors, all activities that succeed and precede to selected activity, only mandatory links, only driving links, only discretionary dependencies, only dependencies of selected activity, etc.

Advanced Cost Management Options

In Spider Project users can create any number of Cost Components (e.g. salary, overheads, cost of materials, cost of machines, external services, etc.) and Cost Centers (groups of cost components), assign Parallel Costs to the same activities (e.g. internal cost, contract cost) and calculate Parallel Budgets, simulate financing, apply Cost Discounting, manage Cash Flows and calculate NPV, IRR and Payback Periods.
Costs can be assigned to activities, resources, resource assignments, materials as fixed, per work hour and per work volume units. Any number of currencies may be used.
Project and Portfolio schedules are calculated taking into account financial restrictions delaying activity execution until its completion is financed.

Corporate Reference-books

Spider Project users can create and use in their projects Reference-books of corporate norms and standards like Resource Productivities on typical assignments, Material Consumption per work volume unit for typical activities and assignments, Work unit costs for typical activities and assignments, standard Resource Crews, etc.
With reference-books it is enough to enter activity type and volume of work and the software will assign resources, materials, costs basing on reference-books information.

Typical Fragment Library

Typical Fragment is small project that simulates typical work package for certain volume of work (e.g. construction of 1 km pipeline using certain technology and in certain soil). After creating WBS (maybe using WBS templates) Spider Project users replace work packages with typical fragments adjusting work volumes. For example, it is sufficient to enter 2.5 multiplier and pipeline construction fragment created for 1 km pipeline will be transformed into the schedule of 2.5 km pipeline construction. With the Fragment Library detailed project models are created fast and reliable.

Risk Simulation

Spider Project users create three project execution scenarios – optimistic, most probable and pessimistic. Basing on these scenarios the software restores probability curves for completion time and costs of the project, its phases and activities. If to enter required probabilities to meet project or phase targets Spider Project calculates what target dates and costs shall be selected.
For defined targets Spider Project calculates probabilities of their achievements (success probabilities).
Besides Spider Project creates Critical schedule – backward project schedule that finishes on target dates usually with most probable estimates of activity durations. Intervals between project (phase/activity) start and finish dates in current and critical schedules are called start and finish buffers.
We recommend to use optimistic schedule for project work force and manage time and cost buffers to achieve project targets.

Advanced Performance Management

Spider Project creates project archives and permits to compare any two project versions. This way the users can estimate what happened since the last schedule update, since the beginning of the month, since the beginning of the year, etc. Keeping project archives Spider Project permits to analyze trends of any project parameter, like project duration, cost, etc.
Earned Value Management is supported and Earned Value calculations can be applied to total cost, any cost component and cost center, to materials and even to user defined fields. Spider Project shows not only current values but also trends of CPI, SPI, CV, SV and all other EV data.
We believe that trend analysis is the best information for decision making and trends of probabilities to meet project targets are best integrated performance indicators.

Advanced Portfolio Management

Spider Project Professional permits to create any number of project portfolios, to use any approaches to project prioritization, and to calculate portfolio schedules, taking into account project priorities, dependencies between activities of different projects, all resource, supply, and financing limitations

Advanced Reporting

Spider Project produces any kind of tabular and graphical reports.
Among them Project, Activity, Resource, Material Gantt Charts, Network Diagram, Organizational Charts, Linear Diagrams (Line of Balance Charts), S-Curves, Resource Histograms, Graphs and Histograms for User Defined Fields, etc.
Reports can be created for any time period, including user defined. For reports that are used frequently it is possible to create report templates and get them by one click of the mouse. Spider script language can be used to automate creating groups of reports automatically.

Usability

Spider Project installation takes not more than 2 minutes. Spider Project does not need any external software except any version of Microsoft Windows. Its own internal database is optimized for fast project calculations and reporting. Database administration is not required. The software was written for project planners, does not require special IT skills, is easy to use, fast and very reliable.
Free Spider Project Viewers are used by those who need to have an access to project data but are not authorized to change them. Actual data can be entered using free Demo software. It makes Spider Project implementation cheap and practical. With one license project data is available for the whole organization.





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